The family of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has endorsed three candidates for the university’s Board of Trustees who have the backing of an alumni group that has been critical of how school leaders handled the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

A Penn State trustee says a consultant should be asked to return “some or all” of the millions of dollars Penn State University paid for an internal investigation into the handling of sexual abuse allegations.

A New York Times report says veteran Joe Paterno began talks that sweetened his retirement contract in the same month that he testified before a grand jury in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case, and all members of the board of trustees weren’t informed of the new package before the scandal engulfed the university.